News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by William Morris(
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1892
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Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these 'Chapters from a Utopian Romance' recount the character William
Guest's journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morris's own country house in Oxfordshire. Drawing on
the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Morris's book is not only astatement of his egalitarian convictions but also a distinctive
contribution to the utopian tradition

The story of the Glittering Plain : which has been also called the Land of living men or the Acre of the undying by William Morris(
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1891
in
English
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When Hallblithe's betrothed is carried off in a strage ship, he sets off alone on a long search for her over land and sea.
This leads him through many exciting adventures, first on the Isle of Ransom and then on the Glittering Plain, or the Acre
of the Undying, where men find eternal youth. In this false paradise he is disappointed again, but learns of the purpose of
the abduction--to lure him away--and makes his escape to continue the search. The strange, semi-medieval language which Morris
creates is wonderfully evocative of the distant past, and this exotic and often comic story is one of his most fresh and colourful
romances